The Grim Reaper | Psychopomps & Messengers of Death
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Death comes to all living things on earth, but in many cultures, death is not the end but rather a transition from one existence to another. And in many cultures, there is a being whose presence heralds death's arrival and guides the deceased to the afterlife: the psychopomp. The most famous depiction of a psychopomp may be the grim reaper, but as you'll soon find out, psychopomps come in a variety of shapes and sizes!
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Jumping on the bandwagon: PLEASE MORE VIDEOS OF PSYCHOPOMP LORE! I might be one of those with Thanatophobia, but I still am curious and wish to learn. Watching videos from the RUclips channel "Ask a Mortician", helps me to understand things more and helps put me a little more at ease. Of course I also love learning about other culture's.
This also makes me think of the song title: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult. The Grim Reaper is just a guide, yet many fear the reaper. It's often been misunderstood, as I used to misunderstand it myself.
Thank you for this video, and all the others from before and those to come. You are one of my favorite RUclipsrs.
Yes I would like to see more psychopomp lore.
Yes, please agree there
Me too
Jesus Christ, Iris, and Santa Muerte would be good candidates for this topic.
After all the death I've seen lately I've stopped fearing death, I respect him now as an old friend.
Psychopomps are beings I've had a long fascination with, especially after falling in love with the portrayal of "Death" in both Terry Pratchett's and Neil Gaiman's works. I would love more stories about them, or the Slavic Samovila if possible. Thank you so much for these tales the hard work you've put in really shows. :)
"Death is nothing to us, for when death has not come for us, we are, and when death has come, we are not." -Epicurus, i think?
Psychopomps, as transitional sentinels, from life, into the afterlife, do indeed provide a comforting concept regarding death. Calls to mind a poem by James Weldon Johnson entitled, "Go Down Death!" Excellent video, my friend! Very well & comprehensively done!🌹💜🌎
Ever since the death of my maternal grandmother and my godparents, I've been fearful of losing both my paternal grandmother and my parents. When I think of a psychopomp, my mind immediately jumps to Anubis, rather than the Grim Reaper. I think by having Anubis in some form around my home, be it a statue or a plush toy, would help calm my fears and act as a memento mori for myself.
Psychopomps are good. Tour guides. Cats, dogs, crows, viking women with highly unlikely curves in their chest armour. Often a relative who went before. I already know mine will be a scruffy mongrel dragging me by the ankle :)
On a lighter note I recall a novel about a young warrior queen. Asks blacksmith for a bit more curves in the chest armour. Old man gives her a long look, says 'Sure. What you going to put in them?' My first thought? Sandwiches! ;
Would love to see stand-alone videos for the Aztec psychopomp and/or for the Valkyries! Fantastic video, as always. I can always count on you introducing me to another area of mythology that I have yet to discover. :)
I loved this video and I love hearing about Psychopomps. Also other examples for psychopomps are Azrael the angel of death and Davy Jones.
Yes I love psychopomp mythology. I would be excited to hear more. Ps middle earth is also great too.
This is exactly what I need: how to depict in a fantasy story a nontraditional psychopomp to help characters transition from life to death. A compassionate, caring messenger who explains options and what can come next.
Watch the You Tube series the Loving Reaper. It is the adventures of a depressed Grim Reaper who dislike the sadness of his job but puts on brave face and comforts people and talking animals who are dying giving them and their living Loved Ones emotional closure. Grim also interacts with his friend Life a Woman that cause all living creatures to live.
I love watching your videos and would like to watch more about the individual psychopomps and the cultures they come from
Yes I would love to see a full episode about psychopomp
Waited to see if you'd mention Valkyries! Beautiful. 🖤
I would love for each of the mentioned psychopomps to get a full video!!
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a representation of the Grim Reaper.
The idea is that death is in everyone's future plus the future faceless is dark, mute, and terrifying to everyone
@@BTLAGS Yes, it is. That's what makes Scrooge repent.
@@blaircolquhoun7780 the appearance of Ghost of Christmas future or death isnt what actually makes Scrooge repent it does make him a little more respectful for the spirit because he disrespected the others. What makes Scrooge truly repent into when he sees the death of Tiny Tim but his own death and how he's going to be treated with a cold and lonely death and that no one will mourn for him. But in some versions not only does he see is cold and lonely death. In other versions he'll be eternally damned and wear a chain greater than Jacob Marleys
@@BTLAGS Yes, I do. Marley said "Business? Mankind was my business!" Then he tells him that he'll be visited by the spirits. The last one more deadly and fearful than him.
Marley's own fate did not scare Scrooge. Jacob Marley was stuck as a spirit in our world with a chain that he had created in his life based on his action and deeds along with the fact that Marley was suffering because of the wrongs he had did and now he's going to pay eternally for it. The Ghost of Christmas future death is terrifying 7ft tall silent quiet menacing has a Vibe just like there's nothing there resembles any type of humanity compared to the previous spirits
The Ophelia art is a beautiful touch ✨️
Could you do a video about the Morrigan from Celtic mythology?
I love the farmer analogy!
Great video! This topic is very fascinating to say the least.
I would love to see more psycopomps lore.
To answer your question,No I do not fear death.
However,I at age 40 am the youngest living member of my family.
I have no wife,no children and in the end,I will be alone.
So,while don't fear death,I worry of what will become of my earthly remains.
With the way in which humanity fears the appearance of death, it is understandable why. What people don't realize is that see this form regularly. However, death is merciful, just over your shoulder.
New subscriber. Love your videos. Great content
I myself would like to see more of this. In Ireland we have the Banshee. Folklore says that you'd see her at a riverbank washing a dead person's clothes and that she'd scream the surname of someone meant to die. Those would be surnames with 'Mac' or 'O' in them.
The washerwoman started in Scandinavia..
@@willjames1124 I didn't know that. Thank you for mentioning it 👍
@@redmondpeters6221 Big Country song - The Seer? Sums her up nice[y.
31 August 1990, I was 15. I got run over by a 7.5t tipper lorry. Multiple broken bones, internal injuries and loads of skin removed from various parts of my body. The only part of me which didn't get injured was my left arm and my head, even though I wasn't wearing a safety helmet.
I died for a few minutes on the operating table. I didn't know this until a few years ago, after talking about it with my mother. The doctors never really spoke with me regarding injuries they tended to talk directly to my parents. I initially thought I had a broken leg and I would be in a plaster cast and out within the week. Only when I woke up in ITU and not being able to move anything apart from my head, and had tubes and pipes coming out of everything apart from my rear and ears, did I realise that wasn't the case. And when I saw my Dad crying, I must of been f*cked up badly.
Anyway after sucking on the gas and counting down from 10.... I was under.
I saw the light at the end of the tunnel. It started as a small dot, I moved towards it. It wasn't threatening or something to be feared. It got to the point of it almost blocking out the darkness in my peripheral. For some reason I knew that if I carried on, I would be at peace and safe. But if I decided to go through, I would not be able to come back. Sometimes I regret not going with "death" (not that I saw the reaper). Life has not been as great as I hoped or tried to make it.
This will help. In my world I am creating through my stories, I have created a Dead being called ';Sleeper'' Of course, the name thing is still up in the air...but anyway, this being travels continuously through the world. So far, I have this....
The Carriage:=A spectral corporeal carriage, that oozes in slime, as it drifts through the air burning brightly as through it is on fire, while taking any shape of form. It is pulled by phantoms, as it groans in the night. It leaves behind wisps of fog. It echos in the night, it produces spine-chilling noise, it can defy the laws of nature and gravity and it can go in any direction. It can go through anything. It leaves behind hallowed screams. It is pulled by Spectral Ghosts who make nightmarish gargling sounds, and chilling echoes in the air. It is said that if a person should catch sight of it, they will bleed out.
The Sleeper: A skinless thing that looks like it has been pulled apart, as you can only see the underneath layers that is oozing in blood and grime, it smells rotten, it is within it's own filth as it echoes with the screaming souls. The sentient being can smell death and decay and can see people's body clock. It can latch onto the dying soul. The creature is said to produce a very strange toxin that can make death painless. It will visit those that have been visited by the Heavenlies (Fairy guardians). It is said that if anyone catches sight of him, they will be driven mad with bouts of torment and destruction.
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Yes, I'd love to see episodes on every single one you mentioned!
I'm going to second with everyone - more psychopomp vids! 🖤
Never heard of a psychopomp. A lot less intimidating then Grim Reaper.
Reapers can not be tricked,
Thanatos hoping nobody tags him on Twitter
The psychopomp I want to meet is the Death of the Discworld created by Terry Pratchett. Anybody with a magnificent white horse called Binky and who loves cats is my kind of person
Very interesting. Thank you.
Nice. I enjoy stuff like this.
Can't say I've ever heard the word Psychopomp before!? Sounds like something little kids would collect! Interesting video though I was only expecting the Grim Reaper!
honestly, I thought Thantos would be in this episode. Would like to hear about him
I'm a psychopump. I move those stuck to whatever afterlife they in life visioned.
Beautiful!
Im not 100% sure if this fits but. Kalma is the Finnish goddess of death and decay, her name meaning "The Stench of Corpses". Her favorite places to linger are graveyards and cemeteries; in fact, one Finnish word for graveyard is kalmisto, derived from her name.
More psychopomps, please!
Definitely more!!
One psychopomp you forgot to mention: Crows. In some cultures they're said to guide the souls to the land of the dead, and occasionally bring them back to right wrongs if that person was wronged
Boba Fett is a psychopomp. He escorted the entombed Han Solo to the underworld of Jabba’s Palace.
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How's this for a more recently recreated reasoning for the existence of "The Flying Dutchmen" of naval lore, that being that the captain of "The Flying Dutchmen" (supernatural ghost ship) is a psychopomp for those that have died at sea, this scenario being depicted in "The Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.
If Death is anything like the Death In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, maybe it won’t be so bad to die…
More please!
Yes…I would like to see more videos on psychopomp
Baby Hector...
In Terry Pratchett's lovely books, Death's horse is called Blinky :D
AURORA BOREALIS? At this time of year, in this part of the country, at this time of day, localized entirely in the Cree afterlife???
Yes!
May I see it?
@@nate4732 ..........no
Please do videos on the Chinese & Aztec depictios of this
I grew up seeing death as a natural part of life.
Baron Samedi is who i will see when my physical body dies 💀 🎩🕯 to take my soul to the next life
I think humans have an instinticual fear of death because we're the only ones who think about and know our own mortality. Animals exist on a different level of existence compared to us. They don't think about death and mortality, only surviving each day as it comes. Humans, by contrast, constantly have that niggling fear of Ending. Especially because we don't know for sure what exactly is on the other side of it.
I was raised Christian and still call myself such. But I'm more spiritual than traditionally religious. I have complicated feelings about Death. He's a neutral force at best but as a believer who made the decision to be saved, he's something of a friend. He's not an End but the start of a new beginning. I don't have any real reason to fear the End because I believe I'll enter into something even better. But I'm only human and that fear remains present in me.
If I could choose my way to go, I want it to be in my sleep. Nothing terrifies me more than being actively aware that I'm slipping to the other side of eternity. I'd rather fall asleep on this side and wake up on the other. But that''s up to God. If I'm to die tragically, I hope it's quick and with no suffering.
*Fun fact for my lore: the last kelpie was named Thanatos
Well.. i saw mist so thick... I was trying to act cool and kerp trading cards. I didn't know if it was proper to address ot, or look. The grey cloak and rainbow hung around that means raziel my fiends. Might as well say ra, and raphael. What do i have to say? You have to ask me
The crows and ravens always give me a heads up warning of spiritual attack
Yes... We need psycho pomps please
Rest in peace
6:31 I have a sculpture of Santa Muerte in my spiritual temple. She is dressed in white symbolizing purity and a peaceful transition into heaven. Death Gods often represent both death and life; protecting those who are not meant to die an early death.
Valar Morgulis,
Can we have more psychopomp Lore please.
More lore on specific Psychopomps would be interesting, especially the Chinese black and white generals.
Yes
The parralels between noah and saturn are numerous. Oddly, few people are aware of the importance of the builder of the ark. He was the patri ark.
My parents told me that cats can guide the dead.
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Just like most other people, I would rather not die; however, I don't fear death. I figure it's no different than what it was like before I was born.
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I can say for myself I do not fear death itself. For myself or others. I don’t want death of course for anyone, even people I do t like. I am an atheist so I see death as an end to all. I want to believe in reincarnation that way we can come back and hopefully make a better meaningful life. But that being the case I make this life the best being there isn’t an afterlife.
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What about Banshees?
It's said, that in that part of Ireland, where the Kennedy family came from, people heard a terrible cry, right the moment JFK was assasinated in America
@@Rabarbara91 Banshees were more of an omen of oncoming death rather than a guide to the afterlife!
Thanatos?
I think Thanatos is the Grim Reaper.
@@Chotabear yes, but for some stories in mythology, Hermes is the one that guides the dead to Charon..
There's also the goofy depiction like Grim from Billy and Mandy
Where are agathodaemons???
#MythsDecember2022,
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The Bible itself teaches that death is a loss of life, experienced by total lack of consciousness. Ecclesiastes 9:5,10 John 11:11-14. So there is no record of a psychopomp to guide souls to heaven or hell as the churches may teach. Either the Creator chooses to remember you and recreates you at a future time or...he doesn't, and everyone can forget your wicked self.
Ok is it weird if uve seen the grim reaper before? Cause there's no doubt in my mind that I have. N I'm still trying to find the meaning. Lol
#MythsDecember2022
That name tho....
Bone Thugs N Harmony - Crossroads video
That's not true there's near-death experiences all the time and they tell what's life like after this one
But do they all agree?
Yep
No, contradicting stories.
Reapers from Kid Icarus, anyone?
I hate the Reapers from Kid Icarus Uprising with the fury of a thousand suns.😤 Great game though.😉